According to the development agreement, the village also stipulated that it won't assess for public improvements to Evergreen Drive when the road is reconstructed with concrete between French and Holland roads next year.

Faith Technologies is an electrical planning, engineering, design and installation company. It employs more than 2,500 people at 20 locations nationwide and has its corporate headquarters in downtown Menasha.

The single-story, 225,000-square-foot facility in Little Chute will be built on vacant land at 2600 Evergreen Drive and will house office, production and distribution space. The project will be visible from Interstate 41.

Construction is scheduled to begin in the spring and be completed by fall 2019.

Fenlon said Faith Technologies wants the facility to be a showcase for its microgrid products and services.

A microgrid is a local energy grid that has the capability to disconnect from the traditional grid and operate autonomously.

"It's basically how you incorporate natural forms of energy from an electrical perspective," Fenlon said. "Can you use solar? Can you do certain things with turbines to create environments where operations can be off the electrical grid?"

Faith Technologies and Schneider Electric partnered to establish a microgrid at the Gordon Bubolz Nature Preserve in Grand Chute earlier this year. It uses solar power, a microturbine, battery and hydrogen fuel cell to produce, distribute and store energy.

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The Gordon Bubolz Nature Preserve operates on a microgrid that powers the facility with renewable energy.
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